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YOGAMATT

wear someone elses shoes, BECAUSE they dont fit.

About Me



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My Interests

Yoga, teaching yoga, Hannah Floyd, climbing rocks, being conscious of my ecological footprint, participating in the world around me, connecting to people and places, my cats, my family, Barton Springs, Enchanted Rock, Riemers Ranch, Alamo Drafthouse, watching LOST-Daily Show-Colbert Report...Colbert is the shiznit, the female form, Vespas, and being an equal opportunity eater. All of us being healthy, happy and positive!

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends, red friends, blue friends.

Music:

Recently listening to...The Roots, EasyStar All Stars, John Browns Body, TOOL, Alice in Chains, Antibalas, Ween, Tom Waits, FINK, Amadou and Miriam...and a lot more.

Books:

All Tolkien, all Edward Abbey, Most Shakespear, absolutely NO Dickens, The Club Dumas, Sidhartha by Herman Hesse, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukov, The Moonstone by WW Collins, The complete works of W WHitman, Thoreau, Byron, Keats, Thich Nhat Hanh, Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Pearls Before Swine by Pastis, The Quantum and the Lotus, The Bhagavad Gita-for that matter the whole Mahabharata, most Tom Robbins, The Tao Te Ching, The Anatomy of Movement, Catcher in the Rye, Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, any history of the universe type books as well as anything to do with quantum physics, string theory and unified theory, and anything with something new to learn in it!!

Heroes:

Anyone who is a force for positive change, selfless compassion, and making the world a better place to be in! Open your heart and your mind...anything else is just a wall

My Blog

interview for YogaYoga newsletter

Interview with Matt BorerMatt Borer teaches Ashtanga at Yoga Yoga full time - with an average of 13 classes a week! He is also a member of the Yoga Yoga Teacher Training faculty. Recently, Rusty Nelso...
Posted by YOGAMATT on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:19:00 PST

"this yoga thing really isn’t working."

My parents began practicing hatha yoga a number of years ago. I believe that I talked about it so much that they figured there must be something to it! They have been practicing now twice a week eve...
Posted by YOGAMATT on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:09:00 PST

Great Yoga and related WebSites

www.ashtangayogadc.com -Ashtanga studio in DCwww.georgetownyoga.com -great studio in Georgetown DC www.yogateachersassoc.org -personal liability insurancewww.cmbm.org -center for mind-body medicine, g...
Posted by YOGAMATT on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:32:00 PST

a bit to chew on

The following is an excerpt from something I recently wrote in a discussion group...thought it was interesting enough to merit posting. Newtonian physics is grounded in mathematics and constants...i.e...
Posted by YOGAMATT on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:40:00 PST

path less traveled

Sitting here pondering Robert Frosts' poem, The Road Not Taken, especially the last lines of ..." Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the differe...
Posted by YOGAMATT on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:00:00 PST

Ahimsa!

In Sanskrit there is a term...Ahimsa...which translated means non-harming.  A beautiful concept for a word!  I dont know of many other words that symbolize this concept.  There are mill...
Posted by YOGAMATT on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:04:00 PST